2 I BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC I OCTOBER 1970 BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC I OCTOBER 1970 I 3 Brooklyn Festival of Dance 1970-71 The Brooklyn Academy of Music in association with The American Dance Foundation presents The American Ballet Company Director ELIOT FELD OLGA JANKE ELIZABETH LEE CHRISTINE SARRY ELIOT FELD JOHN SOWINSKI Marilyn D'Honau Karen Kelly Christine Kono Cristina Stirling Eve WJlstrum Kerry Williams Larry Grenier Edward Henkel Kenneth Hughes Daniel Levins James Lewis Richard Munro Musical Director CHRISTOPHER KEENE Associate Conductor ISAIAH JACKSON Ballet Mistress BARBARA FALLIS The American Ballet Company is a resident company of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The performances of the American Ballet Company at the Brooklyn Academy of Music are made possible by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Ford Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts and individual donors. Baldwin is the official piano of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The unauthorized use of cameras or recording equipment is strictly prohibited during performances. 4 I BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC I OCTOBER 1970 The Brooklyn A(' ad(' nt y of Must(' J /w /Jrook/1, Anulcm)' of Mu1ic i1 c1 deparltllt'lll of tire Brooklyn Ttutitute of Art.\ ami .Science.\. Brook I} n Ac·adt'my of M u:-.ie· \dmini ... tratiV<' Staff Managc·nu•nt Company, lrH". liar vc.:y I ichtenstein, Drr ell or I e\\ is I . lloyd, (,eneral Manager Board ol DirettlHs: Charles I lammock, Asst. (,eneral Manager Seth ~ I .1tson, l'tesident Jane Yoc kel, Asst. 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I· und thro ugh New York Community Trust • lc:rt1 F·oundatmn • The George & Margarita Del:~corte Fdn. • We .rre plc.:ased to extend thrs Jnvttatton to you to bt.~·o me a I ric.:nd Fric·nds of the Brooklyn A•·ndemy of Mu~ie· are peoplc.: who llt•l~t•r t' 111 the need for quahty programs at low box office prices Off••r assistance to the edu~:ational service!> provided by the Ac.Hkmy Inform the community of the vanety of programs the Academy offer~ II l'lp hridge the gap between costs and receipts ~.?. 'i Sponsor SIO Supporttng $'i0 P.llrtln \100 J>,uwr S'iOO Bl'rll'Lil.:tor Eliot Feld and the Extinct Metaphor hy Marcia B. Siegel PI NO AIIIIRI S< lA Eliot r eld's Harbinger ( 1967) WHEN the curtain rises. a boy is crouched. Whctt you see 1s \-\hat\ happening. and low to the ground. in front of a huge, what's happening IS precisely what you sec. back-lit. pao;tel-spattered sail. He slowly unfolds his body upward - and greet:. the Com pare this to almost any other 'iOrt of empty stage with a tlourish. The gesture has ballet. Take a classical par:. de deux. The all the resonant confidence of a boat whio;tle man ami woman enter. meet, dance together saluting the harbor at dawn. for a while; then one partner retires while the other does a solo. There are two reasons This is the firo;t moment of the first ballet why he or she leaves the stage at this point: choreographed by Eliot Feld. Harhinger. It to breathe and rest before the next exertion. contains, in a way, evl!rything one needs to and to give the entire stage to the other know about why many people consider Feld dancer. But the audience is not supposed to the most important young choreographer at think of that. We are supposed to imagine work today. that the first partner i-s really there, gazing fascinated on his beloved's performance, Someone recently told me that after see­ because this is after all an ecstatic love ing Feld\ work for the first time he was scene puzzled becau'ie it didn't seem to be about anything but dancing.